Abstract: A method of configuring a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection between a first and second devices, the USB connection comprising a plurality of data channels, each having a pair of signal links, each signal link including a port at either end of the connection, and a signal wire formed of one or more physical wires extending between corresponding ports. Each of the signal links are configured with a first direction for transmission of data. The first direction is determined based on an initial required data transmission capacity in each direction between the first and second devices. Thereafter, depending on required capacity in the different directions, a selection is made which of the signal links should change their direction of transmission from the first direction to a second direction and a redirection signal is sent to each of the selected signal links to cause the change in direction of transmission.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that generating health diagnostic information from an audio recording. A computing system can include a machine-learned health model comprising that includes a sound model trained to receive data descriptive of a patient audio recording and output sound description data. The computing system can include a diagnostic model trained to receive the sound description data and output a diagnostic score. The computing system can include at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations can include obtaining the patient audio recording; inputting data descriptive of the patient audio recording into the sound model; receiving, as an output of the sound model, the sound description data; inputting the sound description data into the diagnostic model; and receiving, as an output of the diagnostic model, the diagnostic score.

Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling a docking station comprise establishing, by the wireless access point, a USB connection tunnelled over a local area wireless network connection with the mobile device, receiving, by the wireless access point over the USB connection, a request for an Internet Protocol (IP) or a Media Access Control (MAC) network address of the display controller, transmitting, by the wireless access point in response to the request, the IP or the MAC network address of the display controller to the mobile device over the USB connection, and receiving, by the wireless access point, the at least video data addressed to the IP or the MAC network address of the display controller and switching the at least video data addressed to the IP or the MAC network address of the display controller directly to the display controller without passing via the USB controller.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for replicating a file within a network of servers. The technique includes determining one or more regional master servers included in a regional cluster of servers and causing each regional master server to retrieve a file from a fill source. The technique further includes, for at least one local cluster of servers included in the regional cluster of servers, determining one or more local master servers included in the at least one local cluster of servers, and causing each local master server to retrieve the file from one of the one or more regional master servers.

Abstract: A method of controlling a docking station (15) having a wireless access point (21) having a network address for communicating with a mobile device (11) over a local area wireless network connection, a display controller (25) having a network address for processing video data for output to a display device (17a) over a display-specific connection, and a USB controller (28) for processing USB data signals for output to one or more peripheral devices (17b) over a USB connection. The method involves establishing a local area wireless network connection with the mobile device (11) and establishing a USB connection tunnelled over the local area wireless network connection with the mobile device (11).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides nanostructures and nanostructure-based vaccines. Some nanostructures of the present disclosure display antigens capable of eliciting immune responses to infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and pathogens. Some vaccines of the present disclosure are useful for preventing or decreasing the severity of infection with an infectious agent, including, for example and without limitation, lyme disease, pertussis, herpes virus, orthomyxovirus, paramyxovirus, pneumovirus, filovirus, flavivirus, reovirus, retrovirus, meningococcus, or malaria. The antigens may be attached to the core of the nanostructure either non-covalently or covalently, including as a fusion protein or by other means disclosed herein. Multimeric antigens may optionally be displayed along a symmetry axis of the nanostructure. Also provided are proteins and nucleic acid molecules encoding such proteins, vaccine compositions, and methods of administration.

Abstract: A computing system can include an embedding model and a clustering model. The computing system input each of the plurality of inputs into the embedding model and receiving respective embeddings for the plurality of inputs as outputs of the embedding model. The computing system can input the respective embeddings for the plurality of inputs into the clustering model and receiving respective cluster assignments for the plurality of inputs as outputs of the clustering model. The computing system can evaluate a clustering loss function that evaluates a first average, across the plurality of inputs, of a respective first entropy of each respective probability distribution; and a second entropy of a second average of the probability distributions for the plurality of inputs. The computing system can modify parameter(s) of one or both of the clustering model and the embedding model based on the clustering loss function.

Abstract: Methods are provided for generating training triplets that can be used to train multidimensional embeddings to represent the semantic content of non-speech sounds present in a corpus of audio recordings. These training triplets can be used with a triplet loss function to train the multidimensional embeddings such that the embeddings can be used to cluster the contents of a corpus of audio recordings, to facilitate a query-by-example lookup from the corpus, to allow a small number of manually-labeled audio recordings to be generalized, or to facilitate some other audio classification task. The triplet sampling methods may be used individually or collectively, and each represent a respective heuristic about the semantic structure of audio recordings.

Abstract: In a fracture pressure transmission test apparatus utilizing fracture simulating slotted discs, the apparatus can assess the effectiveness of a lost circulation material (LCM) in a test fluid, allow for the assessment of the ability of the LCM to reduce pressure transmission to a tip of a fracture to prevent fracture propagation, and allow for the simulation of flow back to assess the ease of clean-up for reservoir applications.

Abstract: A method of controlling a wireless docking station, which has one or more peripheral devices connected thereto, which are controllable from a mobile device when the mobile device is docked with the wireless docking station. The method involves receiving (S41) a sensing signal indicating that a user is proximate the peripheral device(s) and detecting (S42) that a mobile device is within a predetermined range of the wireless docking station. An identification of the mobile device is determined and the user is requested (S43) to confirm that the user wants to dock the mobile device having the identification with the wireless docking station. When a confirmation signal (S44) is received, an authentication of the mobile device having the identification is permitted to be performed whereby the mobile device having the identification is docked (S47) with the wireless docking station if the authentication is successful.

Abstract: A method of controlling a wireless docking station, which has one or more peripheral devices connected thereto, which are controllable from a mobile device when the mobile device is docked with the wireless docking station. The method involves receiving (S41) a sensing signal indicating that a user is proximate the peripheral device(s) and detecting (S42) that a mobile device is within a predetermined range of the wireless docking station. An identification of the mobile device is determined and the user is requested (S43) to confirm that the user wants to dock the mobile device having the identification with the wireless docking station. When a confirmation signal (S44) is received, an authentication of the mobile device having the identification is permitted to be performed whereby the mobile device having the identification is docked (S47) with the wireless docking station if the authentication is successful.

Abstract: An apparatus for co-ordinating display data sent to a display device includes two or more panels or sub-displays together forming a single display screen for displaying at least one complete image. Each display panel has a display input for receiving display data of part of the complete image from a corresponding display output of a display control device. The display control device receives, from a host device, packets of display data destined for one of the display panels. The display control device directs the packets to one or more processors in the display control device for processing and storing the display data in a respective buffer according to which respective display panel the display data is destined for. The processed display data is output from the buffers at a synchronized time to the display output corresponding to the respective display panel for which the display data is destined.

Abstract: Synthetic nanostructures, polypeptides that are useful, for example, in making synthetic nanostructures, and methods for using such synthetic nanostructures are disclosed herein.

Abstract: Data, particularly display data, is sent to a particular peripheral device, particularly a display device) from a computer device, such as a mobile device. The method involves determining an identifier of each peripheral device and receiving (35) a user identification identifying a particular peripheral device. The user identification is then associated (36) with the identifier of the particular peripheral device, and data is sent to the particular peripheral device based on the identifier associated with the user identification. The user identification comprises a user gesture which is captured as an input image, which is processed to determine which particular peripheral device the user gesture is gesturing towards and associating the user gesture with the identifier of the particular peripheral device.

Abstract: Synthetic nanostructures, polypeptides that are useful, for example, in making synthetic nanostructures, and methods for using such synthetic nanostructures are disclosed herein.

Abstract: A method of configuring a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection between a first and second devices, the USB connection comprising a plurality of data channels, each having a pair of signal links, each signal link including a port at either end of the connection, and a signal wire formed of one or more physical wires extending between corresponding ports. Each of the signal links are configured with a first direction for transmission of data. The first direction is determined based on an initial required data transmission capacity in each direction between the first and second devices. Thereafter, depending on required capacity in the different directions, a selection is made which of the signal links should change their direction of transmission from the first direction to a second direction and a redirection signal is sent to each of the selected signal links to cause the change in direction of transmission.

Abstract: A USB dock (32) which includes a USB data hub (35) that does not provide negotiated power levels to devices connected to the USB dock (32), is connected to a host device (31) via a USB connection and to a peripheral device (33) via a USB connection and a power connection. The USB dock (32) includes a power source (37) connected to the power connection and a power controller (36) connected to the USB data hub (35), the power source (37) and the peripheral device (33). The power controller (36) receives instructions from the host device (31) to control the power source (37) to provide power to the peripheral device (33), communicates with the peripheral device (33) to determine parameters for power to be provided to the peripheral device (33), and controls the power source (37) to provide power at one of a plurality of different power levels to the peripheral device (33) via the power connection based on the instructions from the host device (31) and the determined parameters.

Abstract: A method of configuring a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection between a first and second devices, the USB connection comprising a plurality of data channels, each having a pair of signal links, each signal link including a port at either end of the connection, and a signal wire formed of one or more physical wires extending between corresponding ports. Each of the signal links are configured with a first direction for transmission of data. The first direction is determined based on an initial required data transmission capacity in each direction between the first and second devices. Thereafter, depending on required capacity in the different directions, a selection is made which of the signal links should change their direction of transmission from the first direction to a second direction and a redirection signal is sent to each of the selected signal links to cause the change in direction of transmission.

Abstract: A surgical assembly, the assembly including a first guidewire, a second guidewire, in which each of the first guidewire and the second guidewire are configured to be received by a bone block, a first suture loop, a second suture loop, a first locking component, and a second locking component, in which the first locking component is coupled to the first suture loop and the second locking component is coupled to the second suture loop.

Abstract: A method of controlling a docking station (15) having a wireless access point (21) having a network address for communicating with a mobile device (11) over a local area wireless network connection, a display controller (25) having a network address for processing video data for output to a display device (17a) over a display-specific connection, and a USB controller (28) for processing USB data signals for output to one or more peripheral devices (17b) over a USB connection. The method involves establishing a local area wireless network connection with the mobile device (11) and establishing a USB connection tunnelled over the local area wireless network connection with the mobile device (11).